Activities in Denver & Colorado

Living in one of the most breathtaking areas of the country, students at the University of Denver participate in an abundance of activities.  In Denver and Colorado the options are endless.

In Denver, you can:

• Cycle around the city on 40-plus miles of bike trail
• Enjoy a play, ballet, symphony or opera at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
• Jog, picnic or play volleyball at one of Denver's 301 parks, three of which are within walking distance of campus
• Enjoy the sunset and catch a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, one of the country's premier outdoor performance venues
• Stargaze at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's planetarium show
• Visit the Denver Art Museum, the largest art museum between Chicago and the West Coast
• Journey downtown for a street festival or monthly gallery crawl
• Kayak at Confluence Park in downtown Denver's Central Platte Valley
• Enjoy professional baseball, hockey, football, basketball, soccer and lacrosse
• Shop in the chic Cherry Creek Shopping District, or legendary Larimer Square
• Test your composure on the wild rides at Elitch Gardens
• Celebrate Colorado's most famous artist-the first director of DU's School of Art and Art History at the Vance Kirkland Museum

In Colorado, you can:

• Ski or snowboard some of the world's most famous slopes
• Soak in the therapeutic waters at Idaho Springs, Glenwood Springs or Hot Sulphur Springs
• Scale some of Colorado's 54 fourteeners
• Raft the mighty Arkansas River
• Explore Colorado ghost towns and pan for gold
• Take in the geologic marvels at any of Colorado's five national monuments
• Fish in the state's 8,000 miles of rivers and streams and more than 2,000 lakes and reservoirs
• Improve your golf game.  In Colorado's rarified air, golf balls travel 10% farther